Australia’s electricity generators are largely obsolete and likely future curbs on carbon emissions mean they will probably be replaced by solar and wind energy plants, a former senior executive at one of the nation’s biggest fossil fuel-based power companies said.

Andrew Stock, who ran the bulk of Origin Energy’s generators for more than a decade before leaving the company two years ago, said Australia’s electricity energy is ageing and inefficient by world standards, with the average plant about three decades old.

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Australia’s power generators ill-equipped to cope with carbon limits, says ex-Origin executive.